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Quick Links
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-TBI-Specific Caregiving
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Member-Specific Caregiving
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Caregiving Organizations
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Resources
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Caregiving
-Respite
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Caregiving Guides
 Family
Caregiver Alliance
Part of the National Center on
Caregiving, the Alliance offers comprehensive guidance and
information regarding caregiving, public policy and research, fact
sheets, and caregiving support.
Caring
Today
Covers
topics of reducing stress, working with family, planning for rm
care, handling finances and legal issues, managing medications, and
caregiver stories.
TBI-Specific
Caregiving
TBI
Guide
Free book, Traumatic Brain Injury Survival Guide, published
by clinical neurologist Dr. Glen Johnson. Includes
sections concerning dealing with doctors, coping with common problems,
emotional stages of recovery, returning to school and work.
TBI
Model Systems Fact Sheets
Includes
professionally-reviewed, downloadable fact sheets on a large variety of topics
pertaining to brain injury. (También disponible
en español)
Service
Member-Specific Caregiving
TBI:
A Guide for Caregivers of Service Members and Veterans
Extensive (160
pages) PDF guide for caregivers of service members and veterans.
VA
Caregiver Support Services
Offers a variety
of services designed
specifically for caregivers of service members and veterans.
Traumatic
Brain Injury A to Z
Offers
a variety of Service Member TBI information, and a thorough guide to
caregiving for vets living with brain injury.
Gift
from Within
For survivors of
Trauma experiencing PTSD. Excellent Veterans section under
"Trauma Support".
VA
has established a National Caregiver Support Line for Caregivers of
Veterans -- spouses, children, other family members and friends of
Veterans as well as Veteran themselves – to provide a centralized
location for information and support regarding providing care for a
Veteran. The support line responders are licensed social workers who
provide guidance, education on VA programs and benefits, information
on community resources, and emotional support. When a Caregiver
or Veteran needs additional assistance or a connection to their
local VA medical center, a referral is made to their Caregiver
Support Coordinator.
To reach the VA Caregiver Support Line
call toll free 1-855-260-3274. Operating hours are Monday through
Friday, 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., Eastern Standard Time and Saturday, 10:30
a.m. to 6 p.m., Eastern Standard Time.
National
Caregiving Organizations
National
Alliance for Caregiving
Provides reviews
and ratings in Family Care Resource Connection for over 11,000
consumer-oriented caregiver resources such as websites, videos,
books, and brochures. Also provides an email list-serve on the
topic of caregiving.
National Family Caregivers Association
Provides Tips and
How To Guides including caregiver self-advocacy, care management
techniques, choosing a nursing home, Improving Doctor Caregiver
Communications, Share the Care checklist action plan, Telephone
techniques for family caregivers, and the dealing with the stress of
family caregiving.
Family
Voices
Families, friends, and caregivers speaking out on
behalf of children with special health care needs, addressing policy,
managed care, advocacy-training for parents, publications available.
General
Resources
Connectme
Ohio
Am
online directory of services designed to help people identify
resources such as human services, information and referral,
financial assistance, and other forms of aid and assistance
throughout the United States. It is especially rich in resource
information for seniors and their caregivers; people with
disabilities and their caregivers; parents and families; and low
income people.
Ohio
Department of Aging
Spousal
Caregivers
Well
Spouse Association
Support for spousal caregivers.
Respite
ARCH
National Respite Network and Resource Center
The mission of the ARCH National
Respite Network and Resource Center is to assist and promote the
development of quality respite and crisis care programs, to help
families locate respite and crisis care services in their
communities, and to serve as a strong voice for respite in all
forums.
Lifespan
Respite Tools
Lifespan Respite tools, including
sample job descriptions, sample needs assessments, examples of
Respite Registries, voucher guidance and sample tools, and
performance and evaluation.
Webinars
BIAA
Webinars
Mental
Health Needs of Family Caregivers
Provided by the american Psychological
association Office on Aging
Consumers are encouraged to evaluate each
program and service to determine the quality and appropriateness based
on a specific individual's needs. The Brain Injury Association of
Ohio does not recommend or endorse any particular professional, program,
or service.
BIAOH thanks members
of Ohio’s TBI Family Caregivers Alliance for their assistance in
developing this page, supported in part through Ohio’s federal TBI
Implementation Grant, “Operation MAPS: Joining Forces”,
(H21MC06771-04-1) awarded to the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission
from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) within the
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
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